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Puritans at Play
Bruce C. Daniels
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Description for Puritans at Play
Paperback. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJK; HBTB; HRCC9; JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 370.
'It is rare for a book to be both erudite and amusing at the same time, and this book has succeeded. It has changed the common but unacceptable image of the Puritans as dull, solemn, melancholy misanthropes' - Horton Davies, author of The Worship of the American Puritans For over four centuries, 'puritan' has been a synonym for dour, joyless, and repressed. In Puritans at Play, Bruce Daniels reappraises the accuracy of this grim portrait by examining leisure and recreation in colonial and revolutionary New England. Chapters on music, dinner parties, dancing, sex, alcohol, taverns, and sports are presented in ... Read more
'It is rare for a book to be both erudite and amusing at the same time, and this book has succeeded. It has changed the common but unacceptable image of the Puritans as dull, solemn, melancholy misanthropes' - Horton Davies, author of The Worship of the American Puritans For over four centuries, 'puritan' has been a synonym for dour, joyless, and repressed. In Puritans at Play, Bruce Daniels reappraises the accuracy of this grim portrait by examining leisure and recreation in colonial and revolutionary New England. Chapters on music, dinner parties, dancing, sex, alcohol, taverns, and sports are presented in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
Number of Pages
271
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312161248
SKU
V9780312161248
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